Alexander H. Stephens Quotes
Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.
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O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In finishing it I found . . . such a flavor of persistent euphony, as of a rich river that never foamed or ran thin, but steadily and firmly proceeded with its banks full to the brim.
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Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.
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Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.
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What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look like if all the shadows disappeared?
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I've been evolving in my stunt career Stunts have always had their place, and I have to measure them now. I've done things where, if I make a mistake, I could die. You really need to look at each thing. That usually is a mechanical failure. So, I have gone from doing everything, to listening and saying, "Maybe I shouldn't do this."
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I don't like the word "villain." It's too reductive. Calling someone a villain makes it too easy to ignore all the factors that went into someone making the choices they do.
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The only reactionaries are those who find themselves at home in the present.
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I am proud of my part in the creation of this new state. Our Government was the first to recognize the State of Israel.
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It is our duty to try to be perfect, … to improve each day, and look upon our course last week and do things better this week; do things better today than we did them yesterday
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No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally fast. We are accustomed to determine duration by the aid of some measure of motion.
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A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away fr'm doubt.
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My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
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Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.
